Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-11-05
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS.
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for business.
Work mas commenced on the union depot
at Ottumwa.
Il. N. Boyesen, an old citizen OF Clinton,
died of apploplexy on Monday.
The Free Methoiists are reported M be
Llaking themselves known at Boone.
Th. coal companies st What Cheer are dig.
giug and shipping $50 carloads a day.
The school population of Charles City is
| |, 1863, OF whom $50 are boys and 593 girls.
The Jsnesvllle factory made $4,000 pounds
| OF butter during the month Ct September.
Over ESQ, 900 worth of cedar block paving
has been put down IN Cedar Rapids this year.
A wire nail factory with a capacity OF 25,-
600 kegs per annum, Is to be built at Dubuque.
Saturday In broad daylight the Northwest
IN ticket office a. Des Moines was robbed of
st13.
The Tibbles sewing machine company is
still flirting with Des Moines and Burlington
and working up a bonus %rivalri.
The shenandoah normal college which now
as 457 students in attendance, is said TO be
Tie larLest private school in Iowa.
Davenpott's total registry last fall was A.
264. At the close Of registration hast sa.ur-
day night only ., 120 had registered.
The state normal school at Cedar Falls las
b en materially improved In several res pects.
| Prof Bartlett resume IS bis work this week.
Dan CurrIeg, In court at Cour Gil Bluffs
saturday, pleaded guilty to Keeping and
maintaining a gambling house In that city.
Sunday the Presbyterian synod At Keokuk
obsei vad The fenLcen,ennial OF the celebra-
ito OF the FIRST Presbyterian cfur h IT, lawa.
The number of hogs killed this season to tate
Il the Cedar Rapids packing house is 1913 BIO
IS against 226, 1853 for q corresponding Ieriod
last year.
A party OF Rock ] Lard Surveyors have been
o >king over the ground near MaIeugo, aud
hat town Is joyous over It's PROSPECTS for
ano her railroad.
The registration In the state is light and in
~iicates a light vote. A Des Moires specisl
ays the failure to register is about the "a ne
In both parties.
A brick mason fell from the third story OF
the new postoflce building at Dcs Moines
Friday. His Injuries are serious, though not
rt garded us fatal.
The State Teachers association will meet
in Cedar Rapids December go 80. An elabor-
ste Er9gram one column In length Is publish
ed by the Cedar Rapids papers.
In the state papers items to the effec' that
he weather the first OF this week wac the
coolest ever Known in iowa at this sea on OF
the year are very ommon.
Natural gas was found at Jefferson. The
Cow Is very strong sending the flame thirty
feet high. This is said to be the greatest
aow of natural gas Ia the state.
Dennis Gilmore, an old man, was run over
and killed by a train on the Northwestern
road near Honey Creek a few miles north Of
Council Bluffs on Thursday night.
Knapp, Stout Il Co., Of Keokuk. are arrang-
ing to cut from 1900 900 to 100, 000, eco feet
4 lumber this winter. This wealthy cor
o~o-a'ion will employ about 600 men In their
CAMPS this winter.
The Congregational ladies Of Clintnn adj
vertise the "Feast of Mondamih.' 'Birss 'ag
the Corn Fieldn will be rendered. T ere VIII
be served "corn bread, corn cake, corn beet
aud considerable else"
Rudolph Cohn, a boy employed IN the cloth
lux store Of Z. II. Block, Of Cherokee, tapped
sis employers till Of Sl25 and skippea. He
vas arrested at Aurelir, eight miles from
Cherokee, and lodged In jail. $l24 OF the
money was recovered,
Jacob Berkey, whose wife Is IL Viptcn AZ
charged with infanticide, committed suicid
tuesday night by drowning himself Ia dr.
X denour's fsh pend, northeast of Garrison
lie has been closely watchsd OF late, as his
srou ale has been heavy on his mind P r
sonally he was highly respected.
Az Abner r. Grew, who lives Cd his farm
two miles southeast Of SpriDgville, was riding
q colt on HIS way to town, Tuesday, be vas
tnroSn TO the ground ard rendered i%nsensi-
be. He was found in this condition hy the
driver IT one Of the milk wagons for the
c~ea,nery Mt that place and taken home.
Wbat has been vaguely termed "the bot.
,oms" by the people Of Council B ufs for the
pas, quarter of q ~cestury, is rapidly growing
lear ard oeiug swallowed up ty the city Of
Counci, Bluffs. New houses are the rule not
he exception. ON every hand new houses
are going up and additions being built TO new
ones.
The state board OF health has been carving
on some lively correspondence with with the
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincv, Kau-as
City and 81. Joseph, and othsr railroads, tr
carrying the corpse OF one John Barcus from
Bartlett to Omaha, without n properly certi-
feel certificate. The board OF health Is deter.
mined that the employees Of railroads shall BE-
gwen the proper instru ,tions, and that they
carry them out.
iowa pensisns granted Wednesday: Mex.
icsn war-John scott, Nevada; Eisiui, Bur-
~lipgton; Oscar Alonzo Harrison, Sioux City;
Original. G.. Brrksy, Bedford; Albert
Alley, deceased, Fayette; j.. P. Albert on,
Dean. Inc~rease-sidney Wells, r 'ssell;
Theodore Beach, Charles City; J. NJ. Guild.
Ezra: Eooch Davis, Iows City; George A.
Albright, Mt. vsrnon; jain M. Cary, Rock
Rapids; T. II. HAiues, Sully.
Ginll yaldi, the renowned soprano In tai
Ian and German opera In the ca itals of Eu-
ropS, was once q resident Of Davenp orf.
Tsrlvc or Afteen years ago she came u D.
enport TO be wilh her brother, who wac a
travelling NAV. Ssc was q tea her ~ nusic H.
the orphan a y um there AID a msmNer I the
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